"Now, he’s destroying a day of mourning for the victims of 9/11 by turning into a community work project for Muslims. How dare he do such a thing! How dare he desecrate the memories of these victims of Islamic cruelty! Words cannot express how outraged I am by what he has done – and is doing to our nation. Nothing appears sacred to him except Islam and the undermining of our nation." -9/10/2009

Of course the truth is that nobody needs an amendment saying specifically that pedophilia is not a sexual orientation (which is what King's amendment would've done), anymore than they'd need text stating that eating smoked brie is not a sexual orientation. That's why the Democrats opposed it. And Andrea knows it. But she and her allies also wanted to kill the bill, so truth is the first thing that goes out the window with the "moral" religious right.

“Why is the House of Representatives wasting taxpayer dollars to discuss whether or not drag queens or she-males are offended because of their cross-dressing or sexual behaviors in a business environment? I already know the answer: Because liberals like Robert Andrews are aggressively promoting the normalization of cross-dressing and transsexualism in our culture”

"This freak show must come to an end – and the House of Representatives should get back to important issues such as passing legislation to permit drilling for oil on our own sovereign territory and securing our borders from illegal immigration. The House should be passing legislation to protect the parental rights of girls who are driven across state lines for abortions; the House should pass the Broadcaster Freedom Act to protect conservative and religious broadcasters from efforts by liberals to reinstitute the so-called ‘Fairness Doctrine’ – which will censor the airwaves.

“Let’s stop this nonsense of pretending that men who dress like women are normal and should be considered protected minorities under federal law. These are deeply disturbed individuals who need therapy not coddling and affirmation by a liberal majority in the House of Representatives. Rep. Andrews should be embarrassed and ashamed for holding such a useless hearing.”

The above are but three of the kinds of instances that have landed Andrea and her Traditional Values Coalition group on the Southern Poverty Law Center's list of hate groups. One of only 13 anti-gay organizations whose antics have been over-the-top enough to meet that high bar. They are that incendiary.

So why do we tell you all this? Oh, well, because despite all of these facts (and countless many more), the right-wing Christian media machine is still putting Andrea on national television as the face of opposition to civil policy. Policy that Andrea once referred to as "The Barney Frank She-Male Shower Bill", but that she simply calls ENDA when on national television:

Since viewers of these sorts of programs will never get to see the Andrea that we have seen for many years, we feel obligated to get the word out as much as possible. Behind the smile and nice chatter is someone who has said truly jaw-dropping things about us and our fellows. We know it. Those who follow TVC know it. The Southern Poverty Law Center knows it.

If the mainstream social conservative establishment wants her and TVC to be the voice of ENDA opposition, then far be it for us to intervene. They just better not try to stop us as we dish from our daily dossier on this doyenne of dramatized, deliberately deceptive, Democrat-damning demagoguery.